Digest Hard Food Facts!

Jaw Dropping Truth about Foods!

Dan Brook, Ph.D., bitter-sweet food facts prompt positive action!  Visit Dan’s mind-boggling Eco-Eating website and read his astonishing Food for Thought page with topics: Facing Reality: Food is Political -- Be the Change: We Are What We Eat --  DIY: Grow Your Own – Surpluses and Scarcity: Feed the Hungry – Make it Happen:  Agitate, Educate, Organize!  Absolutely AWESOME!

Forks over Knives (video)

How a Plant-Based Diet Can Save America

This new documentary film currently in theaters is a must see, graphically showing how degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed by rejecting animal-based foods, meat and milk.  Interested in preventing obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, and erectile dysfunction, then read the article by T. Colin Campbell  and Caldwell Esselstyn cutting to the chase.

Dance to Your Heart’s Content!

Soothe jagged nerves, invigorate yourself!

 

Dance!  Follow dancer Paul Eugene, staying well within your fitness and comfort level.  Checkout the research on this Body Brain Boogie WELLNESS blog showing body-brain enhancements related to musical movement.

OK Go – Here It Goes Again (video)

OK Go

Creative Treadmill Exercise!

OK Go performs a highly choreographed routine on the treadmill proving that exercise is as much for the brain as the body.  Enjoy the spin – also watch in awe other works by OK Go such as OK Go – This Too Shall Pass… the creativity will knock your socks off. 

Singing in the Rain! (video)

Dance Through the Doldrums

Gene Kelly elevates our spirit, creating sunshine during cloudy days, dancing and singing in the rain.  This classic song resonates today, showing how joyful music and movement inspirits the body and brain.  Stand up now – join in.  
Feel the joy!

Tools to Track Your Health (interactive)

Calories, Exercise, Tobacco, Body Mass

Free tools are available on LiveSTRONG.com sponsored by the Lance Armstrong Foundation.  If you haven’t seen this informative site, check it out.  Sign-up for free and enjoy your journey towards higher levels of health.

Complete FREE Fitness Guide!

Useful Ideas from Nolan Ryan!

Fitness Benefits… Making Activity Easy… Finding Time for Fitness… Fitness Game Plan… Determine Your Current Level of Fitness… Fit Kids and Aging… Aerobics… Weight Training… Stretching… Sports Injuries…  it’s all here in a complete FREE guide on exercising by Nolan and Ruth Ryan offered by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.  

Fighting Fatigue (Videos)

Sleep Solutions from A to ZZZZZ

Web MD offers 30 short videos focusing on Naps, Teen Insomnia, Sleep Cycles, Night Eating, Sleep Apnea, Snoring, Jet Lag, Restless Leg Syndrome and many more.  Benefits of solid sleep positively impact body and brain function, including alertness, memory, and motor skills. 

Health Benefits of Nature (Slide Show)

Play Outside for Improved Attention and Health!

Health Care-toon by Ed Fischer

Evidence shows how childhood ADD/ADHD, obesity, type-2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and excess stress can be positively impacted through outdoor physical activity.  Green exercise, playing outdoors has significant effect on health and learning according to the National Environmental Education Foundation.   James R. Roberts, MD assembled this research presented in a slide format.

Use a Treadmill Desk (Video)

Bring Movement to Your Workplace

Dr. James Levin from Mayo Clinic discusses ways to bring more movement to people’s workdays, including a treadmill desk; it allows people to walk while they work.  Other ways to bring movement to the day are mentioned.  Health benefits include weight management, and body and brain optimization. 

 

  

“The Night Before Wellness”

Holiday Classic Poem with a Wellness Twist

Enjoy a health promoter’s version of “The Night Before Christmas”.  Health Care-toon author Jeff Haebig adapted Clement C. Moore’s poem to “The Night Before Wellness”… with lines like…

 “Nutrition was taught but despite what I said, visions of junk food danced in their heads.” 

“And rather than walking or running their laps, most people wanted their long winter naps.”

“When all of a sudden there arose such a clatter, as people discovered they were getting much fatter.”  

 E-mail Jeff for the complete version of the holiday poem at JeffHaebig@gmail.com

  

Musical Brain Massage (video)

        Relax the body/brain with music

Paul Collier offers deeply relaxing music for your enjoyment, free on YouTube.  Close your eyes, deepen your breath, and let your stresses melt.  What a gift!

 
 

Smile, Breathe and Go Slowly

                Reduce Holiday Stress!

Zen Habits website offers dozens of effective ways to simplify and savor life and achieve greater happiness and goals.  Read through the Archive of articles offered by Leo Babauta, suggesting effective ways to live a fuller life.  

101 Physical Activities for Parents and Children

Free Online Book Shows Fun-Filled Physical Exercises

Enjoy dozens of balancing, bonding activities sure to build coordination and imagination with your children or grandchildren.  Piggy-back, rowboat, flying angel, and dozens of other activities illustrated with pictures come from Frank, John and Heather Adams.  What a delight! 

The significance of such activities is immense, building the vestibular, sensory and motor systems called upon to live and learn effectively. Read many articles in this  blog to understand the contribution you will make in your child’s physical, mental and social development.

You Belong With Me (video)

 

 Wellness expressed through music

Taylor Swift performing “You Belong to Me” available through Big Machine Records, captures the essence of wellness. Taylor has used her celebrity to exercise her philanthropy. 

Determine Your Natural Body Type

Do your body a favor… respect your somatotype!

 

Distinguishing between Ectomorph, Mesomorph, and Endomorph and honoring your body type is a huge component of wellness.  We can’t all be thin, or have the athletic build we strive for.  What body type are you?  Work within your body type to achieve perfection.  Wikipedia does a good job describing somatotypes.

 

Baseball and the Brain (fun web cast)

Discussion of Brain Science and Baseball is a Hit!

Boneheaded, clutch hitting, and other baseball language permeates this lively conversation connecting baseball, sports and living to brain function.  Former Giant baseball great Bobby Thomson joins neuroscientists and Dan Gordon, author of Your Brain on Cubs who moderates the discussion on mirror neurons, reward circuits, team loyalty, bonding, social defeat, and more.  DANA.org provides this web cast and a host of other web casts and articles helping all of us relate brain science to living and learning.

ADHD article is really an AD?

Medications are suggested – but why?

EverydayHealth.com posts excellent articles on pressing topics such as Lesley Alderman’s Rise of ADHD.  I rarely include their articles on my blog because solutions, written in their articles or shown on the side panels, involve medications.  This Body Brain BOOGIE blog posts many natural, non-drug ways to harness ADHD, using ADHD tendencies to maximize learning in a healthy way.